first edition
1943 · Paris
by Fouquet, Gaétan
Paris: Éditions J. Susse, n.d., 1943. First edition limited to 100 numbered copies (this no. 5); 8vo, pp. 130, [8]; illustrated frontispiece, 46 full-page photographs by the author and 85 illustrations from drawings by "LEP"; this copy contains 12 of the original drawings tipped onto sheets and inserted next to the corresponding illustration; contemporary three-quarter green cloth over marbled boards with leather label on spine, original paper wraps bound in and original paper spine pasted to a rear endpaper; textblock lightly toned, some offsetting from photographs, board edges lightly worn; very good or better.
(Inventory #: 47282)